America is still fighting the wrong war
The al-Qaeda attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon constituted one of the great head fakes of history. As on the sporting field, when…
How Shakespeare explains the Taliban
“Ban, ban, Ca-Caliban! / Has a new master. Get a new man.” Whenever I see the word “Taliban” I always think of The Tempest. Caliban sings those lines after Stephano…